“Why don’t you cheer up, for Christ’s sake?”
That low roar you hear in the distance is the gentle, medicated screaming of the millions of Americans on antidepressants. They’ve probably heard about the British report that finds that antidepressants are not very useful at treating … well, depression.
Given that 1 in 10 women and 1 in every 20 men in America use antidepressants and that this type of drug is the most prescribed in hospital outpatient department visits and physician office visits, the question is: What now? Is Basil Fawlty’s advice all we have?
